Edgefield Advertiser

Negro Grievance.—The people of Massachusetts are happy in another grievance. The landlord of the American House, Pittsfield, declined to receive Fred Douglass as a guest, whereupon that black Demosthenes thunders at him from the lecture-room, and the newspapers declare a crusade against the hotel.

Why don't these philanthropists open their own houses to the black orator? Why is it that abolitionists always want other people to recognize the equality of the negro? Those who send their daughters to the academies want the negroes to be admitted to the common schools. Those who ride in carriages demand a place for him in the street cars. The fashionable churches shut him out of their pews; and demand an opening for him at the polls. Massachusetts, which has no negroes, wants to reconstruct the South on a political negro basis; and the remote counties of this State, which have not a dozen genuine blacks in their population, want to make him juror and supervisor, &c., on Long Island and in New York.

In all these cases the design is not to better the black, but to annoy and disgust the common class of whites. The Puritans abolished bull baiting, not because it hurt the bull, but because it amused the crowd. Albany Argus.